by Anthony Roberts, Celia Woolfrey, Alec Lobrano, Anna Streiffert, Fiona Morgan, Lisa Gerard-Sharp, John Ardagh, Colin Jones, Alan Tillier, Alister Kershaw, Nigel Tisdall, Rosemary Bailey, Tanya Colbourne, Judith Fayard, Max Alexander, Neil Lukas, Kim Sayer · National Géographique · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782845820401
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«France» is the travel guide by Rosemary Bailey and other authors, published by National Geographic in paperback (402 pages).
Travel guide covering France and its regions: reviews the essential points of each area and offers keys to architecture, culture and history. Includes a selection of hotels, restaurants, shops, places of interest and scenic routes to organize the itinerary.
The 2002 edition belongs to the Les Guides de Voyage collection; it is a collective work with seventeen authors.
Recommended for travelers preparing a trip through France who seek a cultural, historical and practical view of the country.
John Ardagh was a British journalist, writer and broadcaster. He was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, and Worcester College, Oxford, where he studied classics and philosophy. From 1953 until 1959, he was a staff writer and correspondent for The Times in France and Algeria. His interest in provincial themes developed through work for Independent Television News and as a correspondent for The Observer (1960–66), mainly writing about culture. His book The New French Revolution, first published in 1968, has been updated many times, most recently as France in the New Century: Portrait of a Changing Society (1999) Ardagh wrote other books to reflect "real" life in Europe. Tale of Five Cities, based on major provincial centers of Europe, appeared in 1979. Germany and the Germans he wrote in 1987, together with his German wife, Katharina. Ireland and the Irish (1994) drew on his family roots. He was also managing editor of the Good Food Guide from 1966 to 1968 and European editor of the Good Hotel Guide for 25 years. Ardagh continued to work for better cross-Channel understanding as a member of the Franco-British Council (1992–98). His name is associated with a study of publishing in France and Britain (1995), produced with the French historian, François Crouzet. The French Government made him a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
